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Three IT Managers to Take Courses at the Stanford Executive University

On June 17, 2011 the finalists of IT Manager Annual Award for this year were announced. Arsen Gevorgyan (Executive Director, Co-founder of SFL LLC), Zhirayr Terzyan (Director of Adbook) and Davit Kocharyan (Executive Director of developWay CJSC) will take courses at the Stanford Executive Institute, Stanford University, in August 2011.

The Award, established under the high patronage of the Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan, aims to raise qualifications of IT Managers in Armenia as well as to improve management and workflow by creating favorable atmosphere so that managers from different companies could have an opportunity to take training courses in different prestigious universities around the world.

Sponsored by VivaCell-MTS, the initiative of the award belongs to Synopsys Armenia CJSC. VivaCell-MTS has allocated about 20 million AMD for the organization of the training courses.

Eligible for participation in the contest were managers under 40, working at IT company registered in Armenia, having not more than 50 employees. The factors taken into account during the selection included education, experience in management, knowledge of English, as well as involvement in the corporate social responsibility projects.